XXX GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.
Range o f the Species,
1. M. ruficeps. H ith e rto only known from Aguapim and Fan tee, countries of th e Gold
Coast.
2. M. lecontei. T h e only specimen known was sent by Du Chaillu from th e Moonda
River, Gaboon.
Genus 9. I sp idin.\.
Range o f the Genus.
This is one o f th e typical genera o f th e Eth io p ian Region, over th e whole o f which, as
well as Madagascar, i t is distributed.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.
1. I . p icta . F o u n d in North-eastern Africa, and th e whole o f AVestern Africa from
Senegambia to Angola.
2. I . natalensis. T h e representative of the foregoing in Eastern and South-eastern
Africa.
3. 7. leucogastra. T h e largest African species, found, b u t rarely, from Sierra Leone down
to Gaboon.
4. I . madagascanensis. Confined to th e forest-region of Madagascar. By no means a
typical species, and exhibits g rea t affinity towards Ceyx and Ceycopsis.
Table o f the Geographical Range o f the Genera Myioceyx and Ispidina.
Mviocetx.
1. M. ruficeps .................
2. M. lecontei ..................
I spidina.
1. I . p ic ta ..........................
2. I . natalensis.................
3. I . leucogastra .............
ETU10PIA.V Region.
KoArftrhi-ceaa. st East A.ffrriiecAa.
Genus 10 . Syma.
Range o f the Genus.
Confined to th e Au stralian Region, being only found in N o rth ern Australia and the
P ap u an Islands.
1, s. torotoro. Only found as yet in New Guinea, th e A ru Islands, Waigion. and
^ ^ S . f lm i r o s t T h . Represents th e foregoing in Australia, where i t is confined to the
Cape-York Peninsula.
Genus 1 1 . H a l c y o n .
Range o f the Genus.
Over tb e whole of tb e Ethiopian, Indian, and Australian Regions, an d extending within
the limits o f tbe Pakearctic Region by reason of tb e occurrence o f a species in J a p a n and
another in South-eastern Europe.
1. I I. corommda. This species has two or th re e subspecies, which differ from th e typical
form in size and in intensity o f coloration. T h e Ruddy Kingfishers in th e ir different allied
forms range over th e w hole o f th e Indo-Malayan subregion, and oocni' in Ja p an and Celebes.
The Kingfisher of Jap an has been named I I. sclilegeli by Bonaparte, and is a little larger
th an typical II. coromanda. Again, tb e form found in Celebes is still a little larg er th an
the Japanese subspecies, and is much b rig h te r in colour. T h e throe subspecies seem, however,
to run one into th e other, so th a t I have n o t tre a ted them as distinct species.
2.' II. haiia. This is a small species of the chestnut-coloured group o f Halcyon, to whmh
belong also th e two succeeding species. I t is confined to th e west Coast o f Africa, being
found” as far n o rth as Sierra Leone, southwards to th e Gaboon. Since th e species was
described in my Monograph, I have received i t from Governor Ussher in Tantee.
8. H. sm ym cnm . AATdely distributed, and ranging th ro u g h o u t th e In d ian Region, not
extending, however, beyond the Malayan Peninsula. Occurs also on th e Red Sea and m
Syria and Palestine, even to Asia Minor,
4. H . gularis. The representative o f th e foregoing species in th e Philippines, where, it
seems, IF. smyrnensis also occurs.
5. IL cyanoventris. Confined to the island o f Java.
6. U . pileata. Spread over b u t confined to th e entire In d ian Region.
7. II. erytlirogastra. Confined to th e Cape-Verde Islands, where i t represents th e next
species.
8. I I semicoarulea. Fo u n d all over th e n o rth ern p a rt o f the Ethiopian Region, and southwards
along the w estern coast to Ovampoland. Some ornithologists, like M. Ju le s Verreaux,
whose experience carries great weight, m aintain th a t this species and th e foregoing are not
separable, as, however different AVest-African specimens may be from those o f th e Capc-
Verde Islands, Abyssinian ones are in te rm ed iate ; so th a t p erhaps I was wrong in separating
th e two forms. Certain it is th a t th e colouring of th e p late of H. erytlirogastra makes it
impossible to appreciate th e difference in th e species; for tb e Du tch colourists have made
tb e shading o f the head so sharp aud o f such a d a rk colour, as to give th e bird the appear-
.ill